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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:
